Website development contracts
UK public sector · 216 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 216
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £84k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £42.7m
- 199 of 210 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 173
- Suppliers
- 146
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See which ones
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What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most website development contracts took 15% of them (33 of 216).
- Contracts awarded per quarter fell 15% from the first half of the period to the second.
- The median contract, £84k, is 24% below the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
Who buys website development
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Scottish Government5 contracts£601k
- 2Cabinet Office5 contracts£597k
- 3Hampshire County Council3 contracts£1.2m
- 4London Borough of Hackney3 contracts£899k
- 5Highways England3 contracts£739k
- 6Historic England3 contracts£280k
- 7UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)3 contracts£95k
- 8British Library2 contracts£5.3m
- 9Edinburgh Napier University2 contracts£2.3m
- 10NHS England2 contracts£692k
Top website development contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Zengenti11 contracts£2.3m
- 2Big Blue Door10 contracts£2.8m
- 3Manifesto Digital4 contracts£5.3m
- 4GOSS Interactive Limited4 contracts£765k
- 5S80804 contracts£194k
- 6Nexer Digital3 contracts£1.1m
- 7Jadu3 contracts£636k
- 8dxw3 contracts£536k
- 9Ember Technology3 contracts£494k
- 10The Union Advertising Agency Ltd3 contracts£304k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to Kampakis and Co Ltd (trading as The Tesseract Academy) · Awarded 2 October 2026
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to Frank Design · Awarded 28 September 2026
Home Office to Encircle Solutions Limited · Awarded 25 September 2026
London Borough of Sutton to Idox · Awarded 24 September 2026
Solent University to Zengenti · Awarded 23 September 2026
Forestry England to Juicy Media · Awarded 22 September 2026
Derbyshire County Council to Frontline Data Ltd · Awarded 21 September 2026
University of East Anglia to Substrakt Ltd · Awarded 21 September 2026
North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College to Thinkology Ltd · Awarded 18 September 2026
Highways England to Umbraco · Awarded 17 September 2026
Largest
BANK OF ENGLAND to 3 Chillies Ltd · Awarded 5 May 2026
British Library to Manifesto Digital · Awarded 24 July 2026
Edinburgh Napier University to supplier not published · Awarded 24 June 2026
COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED to Big Blue Door · Awarded 30 October 2025
H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS to Avanade · Awarded 14 August 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 184 · Scotland 16 · Wales 13 · Northern Ireland 3
What is included
Design, build, redesign, migration, hosting and ongoing support of public-facing websites, including online shops and ordering sites, and the content management system or digital experience platform they run on.
- Website design, build and redesign
- CMS and DXP licences and implementation (for example Drupal, Umbraco, Kentico, WordPress)
- Website hosting, support and maintenance retainers
- Website migration between CMS platforms
- Online shops and B2B ordering sites
What is not included
- Staff intranets -> it.ent.intranet-knowledge-search
- Transactional digital services built through discovery, alpha and beta -> it.dev.digital-service-delivery
- Native or cross-platform mobile apps -> it.dev.mobile-app-development
- On-site museum interactives, XR and virtual tours -> it.dev.interactive-and-immersive-experiences
- Accessibility audits -> it.dev.accessibility-testing-and-audit
- Web analytics -> it.data.web-analytics
- Managed hosting of a non-website application -> it.infra.managed-hosting